Spring Cloud Contracts

Spring Cloud
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Spring Cloud skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Spring Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 506 580 666
Rank change year-on-year +74 +86 +106
Contract jobs citing Spring Cloud 14 2 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.005% 0.087%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.21% 0.022% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 42
10th Percentile £355 - £421
25th Percentile £379 - £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +1.01% -13.91%
75th Percentile £500 - £645
90th Percentile £598 - £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 - £455
% change year-on-year - - -8.08%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Spring Cloud falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

Spring Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Spring Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Spring Cloud in the UK

Spring Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spring Cloud.

Daily rate trend for Spring Cloud in the UK

Spring Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring Cloud over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring Cloud in the UK

Spring Cloud
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Spring Cloud.

Hourly rate trend for Spring Cloud in the UK

Spring Cloud
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring Cloud within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +66 11 £450 -10.00% 2
UK excluding London - 8 £500 - 1
London +42 6 £395 -21.00% 2
Midlands - 4 £500 -
West Midlands - 4 £500 -
Work from Home - 4 £383 - 2
Scotland - 3 - - 1
South East - 1 £500 -

Spring Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) AWS
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (35.71%) Amazon S3
2 5 (35.71%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (28.57%) AWS KMS
3 4 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) Route 53
4 3 (21.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (21.43%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (21.43%) GitHub
4 3 (21.43%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (35.71%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (35.71%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (35.71%) DynamoDB
3 3 (21.43%) DB2
4 2 (14.29%) MongoDB
4 2 (14.29%) Oracle Database
4 2 (14.29%) Redis
5 1 (7.14%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (78.57%) JUnit
1 11 (78.57%) Mockito
2 8 (57.14%) Jenkins
3 7 (50.00%) Git
3 7 (50.00%) Maven
4 6 (42.86%) SonarQube
5 4 (28.57%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (28.57%) DbUnit
5 4 (28.57%) jMock
6 3 (21.43%) GitLab
7 2 (14.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (14.29%) JIRA
7 2 (14.29%) Postman
7 2 (14.29%) REST Assured
7 2 (14.29%) SoapUI
7 2 (14.29%) Subversion
7 2 (14.29%) Xcode
7 2 (14.29%) XCTest
General
1 6 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (42.86%) Banking
1 6 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 3 (21.43%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Presentation Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Developer
1 9 (64.29%) Java Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Architect
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Lead
2 2 (14.29%) Lead Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Lead Java Developer
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Applications Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Developer
3 1 (7.14%) COBOL Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Java Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Mainframe Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (100.00%) Spring
1 14 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 10 (71.43%) Hibernate
3 8 (57.14%) Web Services
4 7 (50.00%) JPA
4 7 (50.00%) REST
4 7 (50.00%) SOAP
5 6 (42.86%) AngularJS
5 6 (42.86%) Bootstrap
6 5 (35.71%) ActiveMQ
6 5 (35.71%) RESTful
7 4 (28.57%) CSS
7 4 (28.57%) HTML
7 4 (28.57%) PowerMock
7 4 (28.57%) Spring Batch
7 4 (28.57%) Spring Integration
8 3 (21.43%) Spring MVC
9 2 (14.29%) CSS3
9 2 (14.29%) HTML5
9 2 (14.29%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.14%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Microservices
2 11 (78.57%) Agile
3 9 (64.29%) DevOps
4 7 (50.00%) TDD
5 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
5 5 (35.71%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (35.71%) Risk Management
5 5 (35.71%) Scrum
6 4 (28.57%) BDD
6 4 (28.57%) Code Quality
6 4 (28.57%) Decision-Making
6 4 (28.57%) Kanban
6 4 (28.57%) Multithreading
6 4 (28.57%) Open Source
6 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (21.43%) Functional Testing
7 3 (21.43%) MVC
7 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
7 3 (21.43%) Unit Testing
8 2 (14.29%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Java
2 11 (78.57%) SQL
3 5 (35.71%) JavaScript
4 2 (14.29%) Groovy
4 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
5 1 (7.14%) COBOL
5 1 (7.14%) JCL
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 9 (64.29%) Docker
2 5 (35.71%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Grafana
1 5 (35.71%) Prometheus
2 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Oracle
2 4 (28.57%) Atlassian
2 4 (28.57%) Jaspersoft
3 2 (14.29%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (14.29%) Dynatrace
3 2 (14.29%) Splunk
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft